6 Toronto police officers charged in corruption probe now suspended without pay
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Six Toronto police officers charged in a months-long corruption probe are now suspended without pay, the Toronto Police Service says.
Nadine Ramadan, spokesperson for the police, confirmed in an electronic mail Friday the six officers charged in Project South are not receiving their salaries whereas they await trial.
The change in the officers’ standing comes after Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw began the suspension without pay course of below Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Act on Feb. 9.
To seventh officer, Const. Derek McCormick, is presently suspended with pay, however he was served with discover on March 2 that his standing will even change to suspended without pay after 60 days from that date.
The seven police officers, together with a retired Toronto police officer and 19 civilians, are charged as a part of the sweeping probe that started final June after York Regional Police officers uncovered an alleged conspiracy to kill a senior corrections officer at an Ontario detention heart.
The case has since expanded right into a wide-ranging corruption and arranged crime investigation.
Some of the officers are accused of leaking info to an organized crime group that used it to hold out robberies, extortions and shootings.
Three Peel Region police officers had been later suspended in reference to the investigation.
A Greater Toronto Area jail guard was additionally arrested in March and charged with 4 offenses in connection to the corruption probe.
The prices haven’t been confirmed in courtroom.
The officers now suspended without pay are:
- Const. Timothy Barnhardt.
- Sgt. Robert Black.
- Const. John Madeley (Jr.).
- Sgt. Carl Grellette.
- Const. Saurabjit Bedi.
- Const. Elias Mouawad.
